I cannot believe Summer is basically here. Some of y’all are already feeling it with the kids home. (Ha!) I have to admit – it is HARD having the girls home with me at all times (you can ask Cory about my endless complaining some days) but when I think back at all of the times we have had together – I am eternally grateful. Those memories are the things that will last – in their lives and mine.
Speaking of things that last … I bought a few boxes at Michael’s to keep our family heirloom prints in as we had outgrown the other box. Today as the girls played today I filled the new boxes up with in my opinion, true treasures. As I was looking at these cherished family portraits, I had the thought – photos are the only thing that gain value as time goes on.
Everything else depreciates or goes out of style.
But pictures?
Those only become more valuable because time is the one thing we cannot store, make up or rewind.
Our babies grow. Our grandparents reach their numbered day. It is the story of all of our lives here on earth.
The portraits that didn’t mean a ton to me when I took them – now I wouldn’t trade them for ANYTHING because I can never make Ry’s face have those chubby cheeks again. Or those fresh baby hairs sprouting out of her first pony tail. And for Selvi? She will never be back in an orphanage (praise Jesus!) – but her caretakers took the best care of her for almost four years. So, those portraits we have of her with them and us in India the week we became a family, we can never replace.
I am just saying – all of the things we spend money on – they have an expiration date.
Family portraits?
They only appreciate with time.
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